Basalt! I traveled to Portland to visit a store that specialized in items made out of basalt. The showroom floor had a screen showing the company's quarry in western Oregon, and a very pleasant old man helped me decide what rocks to buy. I told him I had a budget of around $250 for some flat basalt ...

That sounds like my experience with Antichamber. Enjoyable, but it felt a little vague at times. GFT: I got the most recent Humble Jumbo Bundle, which comes with Warhammer: Vermintide. I like the Warhammer series, so I decided to check it out. Required disk space: THIRTY-SIX GIGABYTES. I think the h...

Also, do not go into the Old Forest and jump down into the Weaver's Nest. Haunted Barren Oak, giant Spider, lots of spiders, lots of spiders, lots of spiders, Haunted Barren Oak, lots of spiders, lots of spiders, lots of spiders, giant Spider, lots of spiders, Haunted Barren Oak, lots of spiders, l...

Planetside and Planetside 2 have some multi-level tactics. The series is primarily an MMO shooter, but platoon leaders can set waypoints and draw on the map to give orders and coordinate logistics (setting up spawn points, constructing forward bases, supplying ammo for vehicles, etc). When there's h...

Weeks wrote:Video games have increased world mortality rates exponentially.

Is it really exponential growth? Maybe every time you kill someone in a video game, that event creates a brand new video game, and an AI starts playing and killing people in the new video game, which creates more games, ad infinitum.

I played Betrayer because it's on sale for 99 cents and Steam recommended it to me. Not a great game, since it was entirely fetch quests, but I did like the atmosphere and the combat. It seems hard to make early powder weapons interesting because it takes so long to reload after every shot... Fortun...

I hear so much contradictory information, I don't know what to believe about most topics. It's an unprecedented drawback of our modern instant access to such a large volume of information. This problem stems from certain factors. For one, the term information should not be confused with fact. Infor...

I hit a speed bump going downhill on my bicycle on a poorly lit street at twenty miles per hour and fractured my manubrium and developed a pneumothorax in my left lung. This means I cannot fly for the next three weeks, which means I cannot go home, which means I cannot see my family for the first t...

I highly recommend Antichamber, if you're looking for non-linear puzzle games. GFT: I played Gods Will Be Watching recently and it was a good bit of storytelling. I didn't really enjoy the overall plot but each chapter was executed well. There's a constant feeling that all of the choices you make wi...

The "vow of poverty" challenge in Crypt of the Necrodancer is fun but infuriating. You instantly die if you pick up any gold (which every enemy drops), and I keep accidentally surrounding myself with gold or being pushed into a tile with gold or just forgetting to avoid it.

Or it's bad that people talk about other people without informing them of it? I don't think this is inherently bad, but it certainly can lead to poor social behaviors, specifically groupthink and othering (is that a word?). I don't disagree with Mauthe Dhoo that it's a problem, I just think it's se...

So to summarize, you observed that discussing negative opinions of a person in private and them finding out about (nearly a decade worth of) it -- a rare but admittedly shitty consequence of human socialization -- can be quite hurtful, then proceeded to ensure that it happened. I'm no consequentiali...

I'm hoping it's not the exact same level layouts, or that there will at least be new content. I liked the remake of Half Life (Black Mesa), but you could follow a walkthrough of the original almost exactly.